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Critical race narratives : a study of race, rhetoric, and injury / Carl Gutierrez-Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl.
- Series:
- Critical America.
- Critical America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- Racism--United States--Historiography.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions--Historiography.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Hate speech--United States.
- Hate speech.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2001.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The beating of Rodney King, the killing of Amadou Diallo, and the LAPD Rampart Scandal: these events have been interpreted by the courts, the media and the public in dramatically conflicting ways. Critical Race Narratives examines what is at stake in these conflicts and, in so doing, rethinks racial strife in the United States as a highly-charged struggle over different methods of reading and writing. Focusing in particular on the practice and theorization of narrative strategies, Gutiérrez-Jones engages many of the most influential texts in the recent race debates including The Bell Curve, Am
- Contents:
- The contours of the contemporary race debate
- Color-blindness, acting out, and culture
- Critical race stories and the problem of remedy
- Historical properties, uncommon grounds
- The sociology of racialized crime
- Genetic liabilities and the paradox of altruism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780814733332
- 0814733336
- 9780585434865
- 0585434867
- OCLC:
- 779828106
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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